The long road to chart dominance: Female stars battle to the top after 55 years
Monday, Aug 1st 2011 at 1:01PMThe album chart was introduced - as a top five - in 1956.
It was dominated by soundtracks and men, with the first woman to make the list, Ella Fitzgerald, not showing up for more than two years - and then for only one week, with her Irving Berlin Song Book. The chart was soon expanded to a Top 10, then to a Top 20, but it was almost another two years before any more female solo artists made the ...
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